“provoked him to anger with their doings; and

30) “the plague brake in upon them. Then stood

“up Phinehas, and executed judgement: and

“so the plague was stayed.”

Hosea, Ch. 9. v. 10.: “I found Israel like

“grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers

“as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first

“season; but they came to Baal peor, and

“consecrated themselves unto the shameful thing,

“and became abominable like that which they